Read/Write Web (A Link)

I don't think that I've ever really taken a look at the blog, Read/Write Web before. But I like it. In the last few days the author hasn't really talked about education at all. He's talked about gadgets for web browsers, like Firefox, and the potential for business on the Internet. In one paragraph he wrote:

If you consider the trend towards a world of widgets and gadgets (mini web applications), you begin to see the potential to make real money from an independent platform. As I wrote in a June article entitled The Future of Personalized Start Pages, the likes of Pageflakes and Netvibes "are building up to a near future where gadgets/widgets will be much more plentiful and functional. Basically these start pages are expecting the world of web services to blossom in the next few years, which is my expectation too."

I don't care that this post has nothing to do with education. I've always felt that as teachers we need to read widely both in our field and outside of it. I'm personally very interested in the ways that the Internet will contribute to the business world of the future. Sometime in a quiet moment in class, you might ask your students how they think that the Internet has changed business.